> > > > fine.
> > >
> > > Cyrix MediaGX - next question.
> > Never seen it... ;-(
>
> It's been around since a few years. And it's being developed further. Seen at
> CeBIT.
I know, I just never seen it in action - live and in color ;-)
> > That's right, but OTOH I've seen cards (like Diamond Edge 3D) that are
> > amazingly fast in gfx mode but the textmode refreshes like it were a 4Mhz XT
> > machine... No, thankyou - I mostly work in text mode and I like it that way, I
> > just hope it won't have gone with a wind...
> > Try to understand my point - not everyone needs antialiased fonts, italics,
> > 1000 fonts and nice looking icons (I'm not saying it's bad!) to do ones job.
>
> My personal view is more like this:
>
> 1. support text mode on machines that have text mode
> 2. emulate (and perform well) text mode on machines that don't have it
That's a sensible approach.
> So I wouldn't say you _have_ to use method 2, only when you can't use method 1.
I just hope I will still have a choice...
later, marek
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